[Conan the Librarian]

To truly appreciate Monty Python, one must go back to “The Goon Show” on radio with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers.

Many of the skits and characters used by the Pythonites were fiendishly ripped off from the Goon Show. :)

The Gumby’s were the children of the Famous Eccles.

[miss marmelstein]

Well, a lot of those guys came out of Marty Feldman’s tv show. A fabulously funny 1960s classic. They wrote for Feldman. I'm sure as youths they were influenced by the Goons - a radio show too esoteric for me.